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      • Calendar Design
      • Restaurant Menu Design
      • Presentation Folder Design
      • Specialty Maps
    • Stationery Design
      • Letterhead Design
      • Envelope Design
      • Note Pad Design
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      • Automotive Form Design
      • Medical Form Design
      • Contract and Warranty Design
      • Energy Supplier Form Design
      • Transpromotional Design
      • And All The Rest
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      • Icon Logos
      • Word Mark Logos
      • Letter Mark Logos
      • Combination Logos
      • Emblem Logos
      • Official Logos
      • Photo Logos
    • Bar Codes
      • Postal Bar Codes
      • QR Codes
  • Languages
    • Foreign Language Brochures
    • Foreign Language Books
    • Foreign Language Rack Cards
    • Foreign Language Business Cards
    • Foreign Language Enrollment Forms
    • Foreign Language Charts
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    • Flip Page Books
    • Fillable PDFs
      • Festival Entry Form
      • Work Invoice
      • Online Registration
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    • Digital Photo Restoration
      • Damaged Photo Repair
      • Aged Photo Restoration
      • Photo Enhancements
      • Photo Manipulation
      • Background Photo Replacement
      • Portrait Photo Isolation
      • Photo Color Isolation
      • Duotones
      • Heavy Duty Photo Framing
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      • Basic 1 Color Recreations
      • Complex 2 Color Recreations
      • Improved Quality and Design
      • Adding Class By Adding Color
      • Vector Images Can Be Full Color
    • Graphic Repair & Modifications
      • New Logos For New Divisions
      • Giving Your Old Artwork A Facelift
      • Adding Depth to Your Logo for Higher Impact
      • Bringing Worn Out Artwork Back to Life
      • Rebuilding Lost Digital Files
  • Services
    • Preflighting
    • Training
    • Color Correcting
    • jPOS Graphics
    • Subcontracting
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The Type Doesn’t Look Right

The Type Doesn’t Look Right – If you’re a client who is getting frustrated because when ever you look at your PDF Proofs, all of the l’s I’s and 1’s look like they are a giant bold rectangles, know that this is just a PDF rendering issue.

Click on the image to Zoom In – 

Tip 1 Before & After

The Fix
Just zoom way in to the character that looks like this using the “zoom” tool in Acrobat Reader and you will see the accurate rendition of the way that this will really look when you print it.

Exporting PDFs with Bleeds from Adobe InDesign

Inventory VS. Staying Lean

Making Good Design Decisions

Monster Sized PDF files

My Computer Goes Too Slow Using Adobe

Never make normal black type from process

SUBCONTRACTING ISSUES

The Benefit of setting your black type to overprint

The Type Doesn’t Look Right

What does Vector mean, and what’s so great about it?

What I have printed never looks like what’s on my monitor!

What’s wrong with using my web graphics to print from?

When I look at my PDFs all of the “l”s are too thick

When NOT to use a JPEG file

Why Can’t I Set Type In Photoshop?

Why can’t I see the new font I just downloaded in my Adobe Indesign document?

Why Does Black Look Grey?

Why does blue look like purple?

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Craig Sharkey

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